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Heather Dawe
@heatherdawe.bsky.social
Writer, artist, climber, data scientist. Generally absorbed by mountains - literature, painting… - with occasional wanderings into AI.
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‘… this beautifully produced and illustrated book…’

‘Dawe has brought a fresh voice to mountaineering literature…’

A great review of my short story collection ‘Dreams of Lost Buttresses’ in @alpineclub.bsky.social journal. Order a copy here:

www.littlepeak.co.uk/catalogue/dr...
Books. 📚 Both reading and writing. As I’m getting close to a final draft of my new book, I’m finding myself reflecting as I complete the concluding chapters.

#amreading #amwriting #AI #intuition #art #mountains
June 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
At the Pools of Dee.

#cairngorms
June 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A quick visit to the Lakes with Alanna and an evening climb of Helm Crag.

It’s 17 years to the day since I did the Bob Graham Round. Memories of a long, hot, beautiful day up and around the fells.

So awesome to be be back remembering and making new memories 🙂

#lakedistrict
May 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Reposted by Heather Dawe
‘Raven Crag’ a short story from my Banff shortlisted collection ‘Dreams of Lost Buttresses’ has just been published over on @ukclimbing.com

A story of a woman who begins climbing after befriending a raven high up a mountain in the Lake District.

www.ukclimbing.com/articles/lit...
May 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Reposted by Heather Dawe
A beautiful extract from AC member @heatherdawe.bsky.social's newest book 'Dreams of Lost Buttresses'. Well worth a read.
FEATURE: Raven Crag, by Heather Dawe
Shortly after passing the Hole-in-the-Wall, Ella sat down on a flat boulder nestled in ground that rose steeply upwards beyond it, forming the crested volcaniclastic sandstone ridge of Striding Edge.....
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May 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
‘Raven Crag’ a short story from my Banff shortlisted collection ‘Dreams of Lost Buttresses’ has just been published over on @ukclimbing.com

A story of a woman who begins climbing after befriending a raven high up a mountain in the Lake District.

www.ukclimbing.com/articles/lit...
May 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Pastel sketch of Sasso Lungo in the Dolomites.

#dolomites #pastels
May 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I’ve not painted for a looong time. Very early days for this one but I’m loving it already, even the beginning frustrations caused by nerves and impatience. I need to wait for it to dry a bit…

#ampainting #workinprogress
May 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The mountain is out.

I didn’t know it before I came to Seattle but for a lot of the time you don’t see the mountains from the city. One of my friends told me a volcano appears from time to time on the horizon, always dependent on the cloud and haze.
May 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Slow time in the forest.

#bluebells
April 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Definitely late forties now… cake as baked by my lovely daughter and there’s not much left 😋

#cake
April 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Spotted in the Keswick Bookshop.

#mountainliterature
April 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
More birch sketching. Lawrencefield from a couple of weeks ago.

#pastels #birch
April 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Helm Crag.
April 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Fine morning for a wander around Silver Howe and Easedale.

#lakedistrict #grasmere
April 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Last night’s walk on the Chevin.
April 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
A henna tattoo of a lizard on my forearm by my niece. It’s giving me ideas… I always said I’d only get one tattoo (and I got that when I was 19).

🦎

#henna #lizard
April 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Work in progress - Blea Tarn and moody Langdale Pikes beyond.

#workinprogress #langdale #pastels
April 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Trees and light. A pastel sketch from last summer.

#pastels #art #trees
March 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Reposted by Heather Dawe
Someone's got the UK edition! (It's out in the US, UK, and Spain in May, with wildly different covers in each.)
No Straight Road Takes You There
- new book of essays provides further evidence that there is no other writer more alive to everything, more clear eyed and enlightened than Rebecca Solnit. This gift of craft and insight lands in the UK in May. 🙏💫
@faberbooks.bsky.social
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
March 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Early bike ride into Leeds and the London train. Had to stop to look at the view :)

#wharfedale
March 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
A pastel sketch of Cìr Mhór and Goatfell from a bright evening on Arran a couple of years ago.

#Arran #art #pastels
March 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
‘What’s the most challenging thing about working in AI?’

I was interviewed by the BBC on a theme of the proportion of women working in AI development and why we need to change it. This proportion is currently 22%.

Happy International Women’s Day! Let’s keep pushing!
March 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Rocket science
Managers of one NASA group have told employees they are working on guidance on how to respond to an email sent on Elon Musk’s orders asking people to describe what they had accomplished the previous week.
NASA Group Tells Employees to Wait on DOGE Work Detail Demands
Managers of one NASA group have told employees they are working on guidance on how to respond to an email sent on Elon Musk’s orders asking people to describe what they had accomplished the previous w...
www.bloomberg.com
February 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Wharfedale morning.
February 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM